Ritholtz's 10 Weekend Reads: The Kids in Silicon Valley Are Not All Right

Looks like a glorious day is on tap. Grab your tablet and a cup of coffee, and settle in to enjoy these longer-form weekend reads:

• Genome Surgery: Genome editing tools boost medical research and gene therapy’s reach (MIT Technology Review) • Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem (NYT Mag) • The New Market Space: Billionaire Investors Look Beyond Earth (FT) • Why we love repetition in music (Aeon) • The Dismal Art: Economic forecasting has become much more sophisticated in the decades since its invention. So why are we still so bad at it? (Democracy Journal) • Is Amazon bad for books? (New Yorker) • The Man Who Destroyed America’s ego: How a rebel psychologist challenged one of the 20th century’s biggest -- and most dangerous -- ideas (Medium) • How We Built the Ghettos (Daily Beast) • Facebook’s Plan to Conquer the World -- With Crappy Phones and Bad Networks (Wired) see also The War Nerd: Google’s Big New Dog (Pando Daily) • A Vast Hidden Surveillance Network Runs Across America, Powered By the Repo Industry (BetaBoston)

What's up for the weekend?

Mutual funds that aim to copy hedge-fund strategies are proliferating

Source: WSJ

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Barry Ritholtz is a Bloomberg View columnist writing about finance, the economy and the business world. He is a professional money manager and started the Big Picture finance blog in 2003.
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